There's a potential impeachment of the US president, the UK general election and a Big Bang Theory prequel looming over our heads, but everyone is really focused on WhatsApp at the moment.

For the second time this month, the chat app has crashed all over the world — cutting millions (nay, billions!) off from all of the funniest GIFs, memes and gossip of the moment. It's just not fair!

Reports of WhatsApp going down began around about 6pm UK time on social media, with panic growing by the minute as more and more people from different parts of the world started experiencing the same outage.

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From the reactions of WhatsApp users below, we can only compare this technical snafu to the greatest disasters of modern history: